Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

technical knowledge and merit based scholarship sets the ground work for a disengagementof students and pushes out those with a wider world view. The study that Cech [17] conductedshowed that students in universities actually decrease in their feelings of social engagement andresponsibilities as they progress through their education. While the changes are small, they aresignificant and point to a larger problem with undergraduate education and the socialization ofengineers.Engineering IdentityThe development of an identity as an engineer has begun to be considered a factor in theformation of a professional engineer. Capobianco, French and Diefes-Dux [18] looked at theconnection of a student’s ability to identity as an engineer and their persistence

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Hannah Wilkinson, Utah State University; Samuel Shaw, Utah State University; Allison Miles, Utah State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

identity in the professional formation of engineers and a diverse, transdisciplinary engineering workforce.Hannah Wilkinson, Utah State University Hannah Wilkinson is a graduate student in Engineering Education at Utah State University. She received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in from the University of Utah and a M.S. in Engineering Education from Utah State University.Samuel Shaw, Utah State University Samuel Shaw is an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Utah State University.Allison Miles, Utah State University Allison Miles is an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Utah State University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 CAREER: ‘Support our

Conference Session

ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum I

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Scott Duplicate Streiner, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Bruce Oestreich, Rowan University; Ted Howell, Rowan University; Jennifer Tole, Rowan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

oral discussions. Thissurvey also revealed that respondents who considered themselves good communicators alsobelieved that “their skills differentiate them from the pack,” while those respondents who are notcomfortable with public speaking (including speaking during meetings) believe “they areconsidered less competent technically.” [1] In 2003, Ford and Riley presented a summary ofother studies that “suggest that oral and written communication skills are one of the primaryfactors required of new graduates ultimately affecting their success in the workplace.” [2]However, engineering students often perceive that the writing instruction they experienced inhigh school, or in English or Composition courses at the University level, is not applicable

Conference Session

Advancing Equity in STEM Academia: Insights and Strategies

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Leon Henry, University of California, Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Eva Fuentes-Lopez, University of California, San Diego

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

California San Diego & San Diego StateUniversity3 Associate Teaching Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California Irvine4 Teaching Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California San Diego5 Associate Teaching Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California Santa Cruz 2 AbstractLatine and Hispanic engineering students rarely see a faculty member whose background mirrorstheir own. The NSF AGEP (Alliances for Graduate Education and The Professoriate) HiringInterventions for Representation and Equity (HIRE) project

Conference Session

Institutional inclusion: Advancing equity and belongingness in engineering education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teirra K Holloman, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Julia Machele Brisbane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Natali Huggins; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

mentoring program for faculty mentoring American Indian and Alaska Native graduate students in STEM: A qualitative study,” Mentor. Tutoring Partnersh. Learn., vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 503–523, 2018, doi: 10.1080/13611267.2018.1561001.[28] L. A. Marchiondo, S. P. Verney, and K. L. Venner, “Academic leaders’ diversity attitudes: Their role in predicting faculty support for institutional diversity,” J. Divers. High. Educ., vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 323–332, Jun. 2023, doi: 10.1037/dhe0000333.[29] C. Hampton, “Agency to Change: A Narrative Inquiry of White Men Faculty in Engineering Engaged in Broadening Participation Work,” Jan. 2021, Accessed: Feb. 06, 2024. [Online]. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/115860[30] S. Secules, S. E

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley

context of engineering practice is made real to students at every level from the freshman year through the culminating sequence described in this paper. (Pilot programs are currently under way at the freshman level as well.) 4.) Fully explor e the pr oblem definition pr ocess. One of the primary advantages of considering a problem in context is that one gets a clearer sense of what the problem really is and sees the truth of Joseph Bordogna’s assertion that “Engineering is not just about doing things right, but also about doing the right things.”The three-course sequence on which this paper focuses begins with a one-credit course forsecond semester engineering juniors. Titled ENGR 302: Engineering in Context

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Emma Torbert; Eleanor Abrams; David Bourgeois; Carmela Amato-Wierda; Anneliese Mueller; Christopher F. Bauer

substances. Structure-function relationships are useful for explaining the importance of bonding to students. Other relevant topics that can be discussed during this Chemproject include polymers, materials science, and mechanical properties of materials. This last topic is particularly interesting to mechanical engineering students who find it difficult too see the relevance of chemistry to their profession.• The Effect of Phospates on the Cleansing Ability of Detergents Students design and implement a quantitative procedure that determines the effect of added phosphate on the cleansing ability of a detergent. A solution of beta-carrotene is provided to the students as a stain source. This project

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Anette Hosoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Gregory L. Long Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Timothy Kassis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; William Dickson, General Motors; Amitava 'Babi' Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

threads are cross-departmental pathways of classes and projects inareas that address the “new machines and systems” of the future and that are likely to play a major partin impacting the world when the students graduate. By participating in the pilot, students will earn an SBdegree from the department they are majoring in and a NEET Certificate naming the thread, within theusual four-year duration. NEET has launched two additional pilot threads in Fall 2018: AdvancedMaterials Machines (covering materials science and engineering and mechanical engineering) and CleanEnergy Systems (covering nuclear science and engineering, civil and environmental engineering andmechanical engineering).The NEET approach and curriculum developed over more than nine

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorena Colcer, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, by studying inclusivity,equity and power in educational systems we found ourselves in the position of asking people tochange. Some changes seem small (e.g. asking someone to edit their vocabulary by adding orremoving a word or phrase), and some seem larger (e.g. asking a School to establish policies toenforce an inclusive culture for graduate students) but the common element is that we areworking to get people to align to our vision.RecommendationsWe have three recommendations for people in engineering education who are beginning toengage in social justice reform.Take action where you can and expect and accept mistakesA primary inspiration for this paper was that we felt unprepared for the particular challenges weencountered. We found

Conference Session

Factors Impacting Engineering Career Choices, Including Engaging Families

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juyeon Y. Kluin, Purdue University; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering education; quantitative and qualitativecontent analysisIntroduction Researchers from a variety of social science disciplines have long been interested instudying the ways in which parents influence their children. Thus far, their findings demonstratethat parents play a pivotal role in children‟s education.1, 2 Many societies have alsoacknowledged the importance and benefits of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) education for international leadership roles in the 21st century global economy. AmongSTEM disciplines, increasing the focus upon engineering education is a recent and growingtrend. In particular, a great number of efforts to include engineering learning in pre-kindergartenthrough 12th grade (P-12

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh; Allison Godwin, Cornell University; Charlie Díaz, University of Pittsburgh; Eric Trevor McChesney, University of Pittsburgh; Erica McGreevy, University of Pittsburgh; Nelson O. O. Zounlomè, University of Pittsburgh; Kevin Jay Kaufman-Ortiz, Purdue University; Anne-Ketura Elie, University of Pittsburgh; Gerard Dorvè-Lewis, University of Pittsburgh; Maricela Bañuelos, University of California, Irvine; Matthew Bahnson, Purdue University; Kevin R. Binning; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Christian D Schunn, University of Pittsburgh; Beverly Conrique, University of Pittsburgh; Liwei Chen, University of Pittsburgh; Carlie Laton Cooper, University of Georgia; Rachel Kelly Forster, University of Pittsburgh; Danielle V. Lewis, SUNY Fredonia; Jacqueline Rohde, Georgia Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

through graduate education, and gender and race in engineering.Dr. Allison Godwin, Cornell University Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belonging and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a 2016 National Science

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Wilson, University of Kentucky; Joseph Hammer; Melanie Miller; Courtney Wright, University of Kentucky; Lucy Hargis; Ellen Usher

-engineering students. Lack of treatment can result in theescalation of mental health symptoms among engineering students. This study, supported by anNSF Research Initiation in Engineering Formation grant, focused on characterizing engineeringstudents’ beliefs about seeking help for a mental health concern. Using the integrated behavioralmodel as a framework, 33 semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted withengineering students from a wide range of majors, years of study, and social identity groups.Interviews were analyzed through deductive coding to identify key beliefs associated with help-seeking as defined by the integrated behavioral model. The beliefs identified include a desireamong engineering students to fix their own problems, to

Conference Session

Bringing Engineering Leadership Pedagogy to Life!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Novick, University of Texas at El Paso; Meagan Kendall, University of Texas at El Paso; Sebastian Palacios; Melanie Realyvasquez, University of Texas at El Paso

(Associate Professor) Dr. Meagan R. Kendall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Leadership at the University of Texas at El Paso. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, she received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Biomechanics, from The University of Texas at Austin. An engineering education researcher, her work focuses on enhancing engineering students' motivation, exploring engineering identity formation, engineering faculty development, developing integrated course sequences, and methods for involving students in curriculum development and teaching through Peer Designed Instruction. Dr. Kendall's scholarship emphasizes the professional formation of

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Research-to-Practice: Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and Practice

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Kelly B. Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

in a student’s decision as to where to attendand what to study. Many other successful programs focus on younger students to intervene incritical decision making times.For this project we paired schools that have been a part of ongoing K-12 outreach programs withadditional schools that have a larger percentage of underrepresented groups in their generalpopulation. In the initial pilot, participating High Schools sent two teachers and six students tothe STEM-Discovery camp. Teachers were urged to select student teams that balance academicdisciplines with roughly half having interests in science/math and the other half in other fields.Teacher workshops were used to guide teachers through the engineering design process, as wellas the content

Conference Session

Sustainability and Social Responsibility

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica Taylor, Iowa State University; Rebekah Oulton P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Further, enacting these skills inthe context of the SDGs provides students with a framework to explore their role in addressingmultidisciplinary, complex challenges. This work in progress paper lays out a curriculumintended for upperclassmen engineering students to develop sociotechnical skills and criticallyengage with the SDGs.Course pilot design and curriculumThe course learning objectives include: 1. Identifying the role of engineers in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the 5 Ps. 2. Identifying personal values and perspectives on the role of engineers and technology in society. 3. Understanding of complex problems in the US and globally. 4. Understanding that engineering as a social process, engineering both

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in Computing -2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah L. Harris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Christine Clark; Ed Jorgensen; Tiberio Garza, Florida International University; Norma A Marrun, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Valerie L. Taylor

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

their families is correlated with increases inacademic success, as measured by retention, progression (GPA and courses completed), and 4- to6-year graduation rates, for both computer engineering and computer science students. We havedemonstrated these effects in a dually designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and AsianAmerican and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) and have doneso as a pilot study for other, including similar, institutions as well as other STEM fields.AcknowledgmentsThis work was funded in part by NSF Grant #1742607.References[1] Fernández, E., Rincón, B. E., & Hinojosa, J. K. (2021). (Re)creating family and reinforcing pedagogies of the home: How familial capital manifests for

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 15

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation and Research Consulting; Suzanne Eyerman, Fairhaven Research and Evaluation; Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University; Michael A. Soltys, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

girls who alsohad a passion for engineering. Meeting the other Ambassadors in video discussions in early falland then being at the SWE Conference a short time later boosted her confidence in herself assomeone who could be an engineer. One of her peers gained confidence at the SWE Conferenceas well. She was bolstered by meeting female college students majoring in Engineering andfemale adult professionals working in Engineering at SWE. As she described it, she came to seeher future self in them. “I've gotten more excited about just my identity as an engineer.”One Ambassador described gaining confidence because she was taking on the role of teachingand guiding other girls in learning about engineering. She felt motivated because she knew

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anique Julienne Olivier-Mason, Brandeis University; Marina Dang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Diana M. Chien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

, Salt LakeCity, Utah. Jun. 2018.[3] Yoritomo, J. Y., Turnipseed, N., Cooper, S. L., Elliott, C. M., Gallagher, J. R., Popovics, J.S., Prior, P., and Zilles, J. L. “Examining engineering writing instruction at a large researchuniversity through the lens of writing studies,” in Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE AnnualConference, Salt Lake City, Utah. Jun. 2018.[4] Hanson, A. J., Lindahl, P., Strasser, S. D., Takemura, A. F., Englund, D. R., and Goldstein, J.“Technical communication instruction for graduate students: The Communication Lab vs. acourse,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio. Jun. 2017.[5] R. Day Babcock and T. Thonus, “A sample research question: What is a successful tutorial?”in Researching the Writing

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research in K-12

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen A. High, Oklahoma State University; Melanie C. Page, Oklahoma State University; Julie Thomas, Oklahoma State University

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Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

profes- sionals. Dr. High is a trainer for Project Lead the Way pre-Engineering. Additionally, she works with middle school teachers and students on engineering projects.Melanie C Page, Oklahoma State University Melanie C. Page received her Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from Arizona State University in 1998. She is currently a professor in the Department of Psyhcology and Director of the OSU Institute for Cre- ativity and Innovation (ICI) in the School of Entrepreneurship. Her research interests are mainly in pre- vention/intervention research; She is currently involved in several projects. One major project is looking at decreasing childhood overweight through family and peer interventions (FiSH project) with

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division: Computing, Technology, and AI

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Franz Kurfess, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Katya Vasilaky, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Tina Cheuk, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Ryan Jenkins; Grace Nolan; Amir Hajrasouliha; Elise St John

tools, both quantitative and qualitative, for twopurposes: First, for the assessment of ethical and social justice (ESJ) considerations in researchprojects, and second, as a pedagogical toolkit that allows users to improve their understanding ofthese aspects of data ethics. Below we describe three existing assessment methodologies forevaluating ESJ in data science research projects: a scoring rubric, a questionnaire, and a canvassheet (i.e., a user-friendly template and tool that captures data), and we propose one additionalmethod, a predictive machine learning model. This document describes an evaluation of thefeedback from 124 students in two different classes who used the questionnaire and canvas sheetto assess their team projects. This data

Conference Session

PCEE Session 13: Equity in P-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mariam Manuel, University of Houston

Paper ID #37345The Intersection of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy andEngineering Design in Secondary STEM (Research toPractice)Mariam Manuel Dr. Mariam Manuel is an Instructional Assistant Professor/Master Teacher for teachHOUSTON, a secondary STEM teacher preparation program in the Department of Mathematics at University of Houston. In addition to preservice STEM teacher education courses, Dr. Manuel teaches Physics for Middle School Teachers and has authored/taught graduate level coursework in Engineering Design Education, for the UH STEM Master’s program. Dr. Manuel serves on multiple grants and actively publishes and

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah M. Brown, National Society of Black Engineers; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech

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Minorities in Engineering

both the program model and the impact of the program. Data collected fromparticipants includes demographics data, efficacy and learning assessments, and evaluations ofthe programs‟ content. This data is collected through survey templates provided to local studentleaders, tabulated locally, and returned to the National leadership. Through the pilot studies thedata collection and research methods are verified for their effectiveness in this unique programmodel. This paper will present the program assessment for internal development as well asaddress research questions about engineering students involved in STEM mentoring activities.Finally we present recommendations for developing the program further and a plan for acomprehensive study of the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee M. Desing, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Deborah M. Grzybowski, Ohio State University; Monica Farmer Cox, Ohio State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Ohio State and earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the intersection between motivation and identity of undergraduate and graduate students, first-year engineering programs, mixed methods research, and innovative approaches to teaching.Dr. Deborah M. Grzybowski, Ohio State University Dr. Deborah Grzybowski is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and her B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten Dodson, Lipscomb University; Courtney Deckard, Lipscomb University; Hannah Duke, Lipscomb University; Elizabeth Buchanan; Justice White, Lipscomb University

: ● Engineering students are positively impacted by involvement in humanitarian engineering projects, but the length of impact is not well-studied, nor is the impact on views of DEI. ● Community engagement (a cousin to humanitarian engineering) provides opportunities for students to understand inequity and develop empathy. ● Social responsibility could be an indicator of active inclusivity but may require a more nuanced approach than scaled items in a questionnaire. ● Empathy in engineering is a teachable and learnable skill but requires students to question their contextual situation and engineering professional identity. ● Professional identity development for early career engineers is connected to their social context

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Oliver, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Laura Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Liberal Education

AC 2007-866: FINDING A "PLACE" FOR READING AND DISCUSSIONCOURSES: DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT OF "SOCIAL AND ETHICAL IMPACTSOF TECHNOLOGY"Kyle Oliver, University of Wisconsin-Madison Kyle Oliver is a graduate student in the Department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Traci Kelly, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dr. Traci Kelly is an Assistant Faculty Associate in the Department of Engineering Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dr. Sandra Courter is the Director of the Engineering Learning Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Laura Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dr

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 1: Methods Refresh: Approaches to Data Analysis in Engineering Education Research

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aaron Robert Hamilton Thielmeyer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Dina Verdin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rachel Ann Baker; Jacqueline Doyle, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

different groups on the map, shown inFigure 3. This will include recruiting students from different parts of the maps in order to conductlongitudinal interviews about engineering pathways and the negotiation of identities as engineers.This corresponding qualitative work will build upon this study’s existing quantitative results andwill inform additional studies with the insights recorded.ConclusionThis paper described the key model parameters that researchers must consider in using a newstatistical method, Topological Data Analysis (TDA). We also presented how TDA can be usefulto characterize students’ latent diversity from a survey study of 3,711 first-year engineeringstudents’ incoming attitudes, beliefs, and mindsets at 32 ABET-accredited

Conference Session

Research on Learning, Performance, and Impact

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvanus N. Wosu, University of Pittsburgh

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Minorities in Engineering

risk-taking andleadership1-4 cited as the most common barriers. Studies sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation also show that although the preparation for college is improving for AfricanAmericans students, the percent of high school graduates who enroll in college has not increaseddue to deficiencies in quantitative literacy in K-12 curricula and the lack of activities that relatescience, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) to real world experience.1 TheAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science Project 2061 has noted that merely"covering" the topic or teaching unit is not sufficient to assure that the material will actually helpstudents learn important ideas within those topics.2 In contrast, Project CARE research

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica J. Lofton, University of Evansville

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #20327Encouraging Young Women to Pursue Engineering: 25 Years of SummerCamp Successes and ChallengesDr. Jessica J. Lofton, University of Evansville Dr. Lofton is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Evansville, and the Director for the OPTIONS in Engineering summer camps for middle school and high school girls. After earning her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Evansville, she completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois, with a graduate minor in College Teaching. She is a faculty advisor for the student chapters of

Conference Session

Retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Niranjan Hemant Desai, Purdue University Northwest; George Stefanek, Purdue University Northwest

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

that involved combining fiveeducation best practices of recruitment, formal mentoring through peer mentors, summer campengineering math preparation and workshops, academic year stipends, and summer internships atlocal and regional companies.The Just in Time Math (JITM) strategy was implemented to increase the interaction betweenfreshmen and engineering faculty and peers during the first semesters of study. As a result, moreengineering students have shown greater enthusiasm for the field of engineering which resultedin better retention and graduation rates. The JITM course included lecture, lab and recitationcomponents and an application-oriented, hands-on approach. The JITM course addressed mathtopics specifically used in the core entry-level

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michael Butler, Lockheed Martin

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Aerospace

accidental competencies. Quantitative and qualitative results of a study of theapplication of LSBL in a two term capstone design class in aerospace engineering aircraft designare discussed with emphasis on the impact of the approach on student’s design relatedprofessional and technical skills as measured by multiple survey applications and one-on-oneinterviews. Results indicate that the participants found the LSBL experience to be moreengaging than the traditional lecture approach and did help students respond and begin to thinkmore like aerospace engineering practicing professionals. It is felt that such efforts begin toaddress the “gap” between academia and industry.Introduction What differentiates the expert practicing engineer from the